Argiope argentata (Fabricius, 1775)
silver garden spider
| FAMILY: ARANEIDAE Simon, 1895 Genus: Argiope Audouin, 1826 Species: Argiope argentata (Fabricius, 1775)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
orbweavers
Genus Common Name:
garden orbweavers
Species Common Name:
silver garden spider
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA to Argentina
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† orb weavers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
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Agnarsson, I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 141: 447-626. 
Archer, A. F. 1963. Catalogo de las arañas chilenas de las families de la division Metarachnae. Publ. Ocas. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Santiago 1: 1-32.
Badcock, A. D. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Jour. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 38: 1-48.
Bryant, E. B. 1940. Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 86: 247-554.
Butler, A. G. 1873. A list of the spiders of the genus Acrosoma. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1873: 420-429.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1903. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 425-464.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1917. New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 61: 25-75.
De Geer, C. 1778. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Stockholm, 7(3-4): 176-324.
Fabricius, J. C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis, synonymis, locis descriptionibus observationibus. Flensburg and Lipsiae, 832 pp. (Araneae, pp. 431-441).
Hingston, R. W. G. 1932. A naturalist in the Guiana forest. London, pp. 1-384 (Araneae, 363-377).
Keyserling, E. 1893. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Epeiridae. Nürnberg, 4: 209-377.
Keyserling, E. 1865. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Orbitelae Latr. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 15: 799-856.
Koch, C. L. 1838. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Vierter Band, pp. 109-144, Funfter Band, pp. 1-124.
Koch, L. 1871. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg, 1: 1-104.
Levi, H. W. 2004. Comments and new records for the American genera Gea and Argiope with the description of new species (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 158: 47-65.
Levi, H. W. 1991. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 152: 167-315.
Levi, H. W. 1983. The orb-weaver genera Argiope, Gea, and Neogea from the western Pacific region (Araneae: Araneidae, Argiopinae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 150: 247-338.
Levi, H. W. 1968. The spider genera Gea and Argiope in America (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 136: 319-352.
Lopez, A. 1993. Les araignées de la Guadeloupe: Genres Metepeira, Cyclosa et Argiope (Araneidae). Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. (Venette-Compiègne) 77: 9-16.
McCook, H. C. 1894. American spiders and their spinningwork. Philadelphia, 3: 1-285.
Mello-Leitao, C. F. de. 1944. Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revta Mus. La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 3: 311-393.
Mello-Leitao, C. F. de. 1941. Catalogo das aranhas da Colombia. Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 13: 233-300.
Mello-Leitao, C. F. de. 1932. Notas sobre ao Micratheneas do Brasil. Ann. Acad. brasil. sci. 4: 73-97.
Olivier G., A. 1789. Araignée, Aranea. Encycl. méth. Hist. nat. Ins. Paris 4: 173-240.
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Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Roewer, C. F. 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen, 1: 1-1040.
Simon, E. 1896. Etude sur les Arachnides du Chili. Premier mémoire. Act. Soc. Sci. Chili 6: 63-70, CIV-CVII.
Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 761-1084.
Strand, E. 1916. Systematische-faunistiche Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Arch. Naturg. 81(A9): 1-153.
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Walckenaer, C. A. 1842. Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Paris, 2: 1-549.
Walckenaer, C. A. 1805. Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Paris, 88 pp.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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